vmWare - Vcenter Server Appliance 5.5 - embedded DB problem
Problem seen: The embedded DB didnt start due to which vCenter configurations like Dswitch, hosts, etc were not available. vSA-173:~ # service vmware-vpxd status vmware-vpxd is stopped tomcat is stopped vSA-173:~ # service vmware-vpxd start Waiting for the embedded database to start up: ............................failed Verifying EULA acceptance: success Executing pre-startup scripts... Updating the vCenter endpoint in the Lookup Service. Intializing registration provider... Getting SSL certificates for https://135.249.34.173:7444/lookupservice/sdk Service with name 'vpxd-vSA-173-81a29e14-9705-47e2-a165-3cacb809fd43' and ID 'local:20165866-25c5-41ac-8e5e-9fc277b7bc6b' was updated. Return code is: Success Starting ldap-server..done Starting vmware-vpxd: success Waiting for vpxd to initialize: .................... .................................^C vSA-173:~ # Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/vmware-vpx/py/wait_for_vpxd.py&quo